First time on a plane with 3 Kids

So, first of all I have no pictures since my day was soooooo crazy I did not even think the word camera. Well, incase you did not know we are in Tucson thanking all of our wonderful supporters, but let me tell you how we got here. We left the house at 3:45 to go get Logan from preschool (Yes he had a great day and won a green pencil playing bingo. Does not get much better then that). We head off to Alison's house in Parker. Arrive and hang out for about an hour until Paul comes home. In that hour we give the kids a snack, feed Levi, change diapers, and put everyone in pj's for the late night flight. Paul arrives and we load the three kiddos in the car and head off to the Denver airport which is in the middle of no where. We drive up and the craziness begins. We start to unload. First the double stroller then the two babies. Now we start stacking the luggage on the side. If you have never traveled with three small children they require a lot of stuff. Out come all three cars seats, the pack and play, two check on bags, two carry on bags, the computer, and last the diaper bags. Everyone was looking at us and you could see it in there eyes, "Please don't let them on our flight!" We had to rent one of those carts just to get to the check in counter. Now the lines are formed and people are checking in at the computers, but we need an agent since we have two lap children. The look on her face was not good, she was at the end of the day and we were the last people she wanted to help. Fabulous! So we get checked in two hours early and head to securtiy. Now this was fun. They send Bryan and Logan to one check in and me with the babies to another (Bryan always lucks out). So Bryan and Logan take off their cute shoes and head through the line no problem and go and sit while they wait and wait for us. I in the mean time have to unload the stroller, place each bottle in a seperate container, the formula in a container, take off everyone's shoes (Landon loves his shoes and this did not make him happy), take both babies out and fold the stroller up. The nice gentlemen puts the stroller on the scanner (what was he thinking?) and then relized it would not fit. I then try to go through with the children, but we each have to go through seperately. Might sound easy, right? Wrong. It took a couple of times because Landon wanted to stay with me. So he then melted and on the ground and I got through and then called him through. Poor baby :( I call Bryan to come to the rescue and help. I reload all the stuff back in the diaper bag and start to put on the shoes. The stroller is now getting hand checked. Now we have everyone back in and we are off. We start following the signs to our terminal and for dinner. We then run into the escaltor and we need an elevator. So we start hunting and find one. We get in it and press two for the next level down. We get out and this is a dead end. This elevator does not go to the termals just to the escaltors. You have to be kidding me. We then get back in the elevator and go back up. We find a worker who tells us which elevator to get on. Yes we made it. We get MCD's and feed the children. I then take Logan and Landon to pick out a lolly pop to have on the plane for their ears. Bryan cleans the table and comes to meet us. All he had was Levi and his little bag. While we are 35 minutes until we leave so we quickly head to terminal 34. I go to check the tickets and ask Bryan for them. He hands Levi over and starts looking in his pockets. Yes looking! I am kind of glaring at him thinking, "oh no he didn't". Yes he did. He says, "I know I picked them off the table." I reply, "You didn't throw them in the trash?" Off runs Bryan and leaves me with the 3 kids waiting. About 10 minutes later I see him come back. He hands me the tickets and they were a little wet. YUK and sign they were in trash. Well at least he found them. So we very quickly get to gat 34 and are there for 2 minutes before we board. We get to board early with the kids or so they say. As soon as we reach the gate in comes everyone else. We fold down the stoller and get everything and everyone in. We are finally seated yet not together because of how many kids is not the same as how many oxygen mask. Not good. Bryan takes Landon and I take Logan and Levi. We get buckled up and Logan is excited. He pretty much did not stop talking the entire time. The babies were great and did not cry. What a blessing. The ride was pretty bumpy due to a storm and we finally landed. We wait and are the last off the plane. We then wait for the stroller which took forever. We meet Gigi and Papa and get the luggage and the car seats. Head for the car. Now our stroller is so big it does not fit so Papa straps it on top of the car while Bryan load the three cars seats in and I get the luggage. We head home and put our very tired heads on the bed 8 hours later. Yes with all of that we only saved 4 hours. Worth it? I am not sure. I will let you know after the flight back. So if you think of it pray for us on September 9th and as we travel back.